Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

New American Standard Bible

“If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

King James Version

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

Holman Bible

When disaster brings sudden death,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

International Standard Version

If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.

A Conservative Version

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

American Standard Version

If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Amplified


“When [His] scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks at the despair of the innocent.

Bible in Basic English

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

Darby Translation

If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.

Julia Smith Translation

If the scourge shall fall suddenly, he will deride at the trial of the innocent

King James 2000

If the scourge slays suddenly, he will laugh at the plight of the innocent.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at [the] despair of [the] innocent.

Modern King James verseion

If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the innocent.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And though he slay suddenly with the scourge, yet will he laugh at the punishment of the innocent.

NET Bible

If a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks at the despair of the innocent.

New Heart English Bible

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

The Emphasized Bible

If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.

Webster

If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

World English Bible

If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If the scourge
שׁוט 
Showt 
Usage: 11

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

פּתאם פּתאום 
Pith'owm 
Usage: 25

he will laugh
לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 18

at the trial
מסּה 
Maccah 
Usage: 5

References

Morish

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, 'The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.' 23 If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth. 24 Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who is he?

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:15

And now that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, it is because the people made me afraid, and thy maid-servant saith, Let me speak, I pray thee, unto the king; it may be the king doth do the word of his handmaid,

2 Samuel 14:17

and thy maid-servant saith, Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so is my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and Jehovah thy God is with thee.'

Job 1:13-19

And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.

Job 2:7

And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

Job 8:20

Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

Job 24:12

Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.

Psalm 44:22

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Or -- pestilence I send unto that land, and I have poured out My fury against it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast --

Ezekiel 21:13

Because it is a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Hebrews 11:36-37

and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

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